deala 1.3.0

DEALA can be used for the economic assessment in Life Cycle Costing or Life Cycle Sustainability Assessment studies within Brightway2

📦 DEALA — Differentiated Economic Assessment in a Life cycle-oriented Analysis

DEALA is a Python package developed to perform comprehensive and differentiated economic assessments within Life Cycle (Sustainabiltiy) Assessment (LC(S)A) or Life Cycle Costing studies (LCC). It enables the integration of economic data and includes three pre-defined economic life cycle impact assessment methods for the calculation of the economic impacts. DEALA builds upon existing LCA frameworks such as Brightway2 and supplements them with custom databases and impact categories tailored for economic evaluation.

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📚 Further Information

Detailed information about the DEALA method can be found in the following scientific publication:

👉 https://doi.org/10.1111/jiec.13584

Popien, J.-L., Barke, A., Ginster, R., Striecks, T., Thies, C., & Spengler, T. S. (2024).
DEALA — A novel economic life cycle impact assessment method for differentiated economic assessments in the context of life cycle sustainability assessments.
Journal of Industrial Ecology. https://doi.org/10.1111/jiec.13584

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🚀 Key Features

1. Three economic LCIA methods
   Includes DEALA-Cost, DEALA-Profit, and DEALA-Invest as built-in economic characterization models.

2. Integrated marketsphere database
   Provides a ready-to-use database that enables the calculation of economic impacts via the characterization models.

3. Support for life cycle sustainability assessments (LCSA)
   DEALA enables unified assessments of economic, environmental, and social impacts of production systems on a consistent level.

4. Practical case study included
   A worked example on pan production is provided in the deala/notebooks/pan_production.ipynb notebook to demonstrate the application of the DEALA method.

5. Example files and templates
   Includes example datasets and templates to guide users through typical DEALA workflows.

6. Regionalized and time-dependent assessments
   Enables economic assessments that account for regional specifics and temporal developments.

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🏁 Getting Started

📥 Installation

pip install deala

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📄 License

BSD 3-Clause License

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🙋 Support

For questions, suggestions, or contributions, feel free to contact the development team or submit an issue via GitHub.